Benjamin Buttons is, from what I've heard, a great cathartic tear-jerker, whereas Revolutionary Road is just kind of depressing.

Yeah, I think BB might me the winner for that reason. Also, Brad Pitt.

I'd say TCCoBB is quietly joyful, and rather apropos to ring in the new year. There was a tear at one moment, but it's certainly not what I would call a tearjerker because of the way it deals with death: which is constant and a given and whenever it arrives, and it does constantly, it's met with respect for life and as a reminder to make it count, and make it count Now, because you never know what's gonna hit you.

Not really spoilery, but JIC.

See it with your parents, your grandparents, your kids. For serious.

(I LOVE Big Fish. It's one of my favorite movies ever. But I don't watch it very often, because it turns me into a weepy mess.)

Oh yes, Both Edward S and Big Fish are weepers for me.

Also, believe it or not, Murderball, perhaps my favorite documentary. There are a couple of scenes that depict fatherly love as it really should be that just do me right in. There are also, watch from the hall, scenes depicting wretched fathering, so it gets ya coming and going.

also, regarding Benjamin Button, sfx/technically, it's a marvel to witness --which leads to two wonderful, shallow pleasures: a young Cate Blanchett and a Brad Pitt circa The Favor. Think of the youthful Xavier and Magneto in that third travesty of an X-men movie, in the flashback with Jean Grey, to the bajillionth power. Two dizzyingly gorgeous people made younger and more gorgeous. Yum.

Heh- after all that, I'm now watching Revolutionary Road on DVD.

Revolutionary Road is good, but not at all a feel good movie. so if you're wanting to end 2008 on a good note? probably not your movie.

I may have said this upthread. But Marley is actually fun if you sort of tune out the people and concentrate on the dog. And in all fairness, you have to be in a certain class position, and have a certain mind set to hold on to a dog like that and continue to let him get away with what he gets away with.

I'll stay vague to avoid spoilers but at several points the main characters reluctantly chose betweeen A & Z. This always made be go "Huh? What about choices B through Y?". And then I'd laugh some more at the dog, or um cry. This makes me think I should watch animal planet more.

Okay, that kind of sucked. I'd forgotten how much I dislike Sam Mendes' films. Oh well! On to Happy-Go-Lucky next.

2 new HP & the HBP pictures from Empire magazine.

Happy-Go-Lucky = awesome! Now to bed. Happy 2009!